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So what kind of political and cultural event are we looking at when former President Donald Trump faces a courtroom in the near future? "The Trump trials will be an O.J.-level media frenzy," predicts Jim Geraghty, a National Review columnist.

The Biden bribery scandal could end up being a Watergate-like tragedy turned into a sordid and very pedestrian money-grubbing scheme.

Rookie Andre Jones Jr. was considered a raw prospect who needed a lot of development when he was taken in the draft. But on Wednesday, after Washington's joint practices against the Baltimore Ravens concluded, coach Ron Rivera beamed and uttered 'wow' when asked about Jones.

When freedom of speech and freedom of the press die, it will happen by a thousand small cuts.

From atop small mountain peaks in the Israeli Golan Heights you can peer deep into both Lebanon and Syria. On the Israeli side of the border, everything is green. Why? Because the Israelis irrigate and plant trees.

Fresh off his efforts to ban lead ammunition on public land, President Biden is again escalating his war on hunters, this time by withholding routine funds provided to our children's schools that are used for hunter education.

The great Jonathan Martin recently wrote a story that lays bare all the pathologies of the Republican Party and the chasm that exists between its "leaders" and the voters.

The Fairfax County superintendent's decision to defy Virginia's newly released policy on transgender students isn't sitting well with Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Talk about a great way to get kids engaged in thinking about new things to eat for lunch. Lay a wrap on the table, open the fridge door and let them get creative.

The aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS Ronald Reagan is currently deployed in waters off the east coast of Taiwan amid growing tensions with China over the recent U.S. visit by Taiwan's vice president, the U.S. Naval Institute reported this week.

A GOP lawmaker has apologized for a social media post about religious freedom aimed at a pro-life activist, after conservatives and a progressive lawmaker criticized him.

Atlantic City's casinos, the three New Jersey horse tracks that take sports bets, and their online partners won over half a billion dollars from gamblers in July, up 5.3% from a year earlier, figures released Wednesday show.

A combined Russian and Chinese naval group practiced anti-submarine warfare near Alaska last week. It should serve as a wake-up call that hostile actors are developing their naval capabilities, but most in D.C. seem to keep hitting the snooze button.

The prosecutor in Atlanta who obtained an indictment this week against former President Donald Trump and 18 others wants to take the case to trial in March.

Maryland State Police are searching for an inmate, originally locked up on burglary charges, who escaped from a Howard County corrections transport van Wednesday.

Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" film is now the highest-grossing movie that the legendary Warner Bros. studio has ever released in North America.

The suspected architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and his fellow defendants may never face the death penalty under plea agreements now under consideration to bring an end to their more than decadelong prosecution, the Pentagon and FBI have advised families of some of the thousands killed.

The Democratic ranking member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee sent a letter Wednesday that called for the panel to refer former Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder to the Department of Justice for potentially lying under oath and obstructing the committee's previous 14-month-long investigation into the team.

New York Mayor Eric Adams estimates that nearly 100,000 asylum-seekers arrived in the Big Apple in the last year alone, at a cost to the city of over $12 billion by 2025. Now, the mayor is begging for federal help.

President Biden loves his tall tales, and "Bidenomics" might be the biggest one yet.

As millions of children return to public school, it's a good idea to again examine what they are being taught and what is being left out.

A prominent Memphis couple with a longstanding relationship to former NFL player Michael Oher want to end a conservatorship that he's challenging in court, their lawyers said.

Vitriol toward Christians seems to be increasing on the left, which views the Judeo-Christian heritage as a source of oppression.

Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey was set to have foot surgery Wednesday, a potentially significant blow to the team's defensive backfield.

Former President Donald Trump is dominating the polls and overshadowing his rivals in Iowa, but there is a lingering sentiment among GOP caucus-goers that it could be time to turn the page.